Finally got back out SCUBA diving today. I stopped diving more than a decade ago because I got transferred inland; no where to play but no time either. Moved to a small town with a reservoir & asked about a search & rescue dive team. Got on the team & since they were already training new divers, I went with them for a few refresher dives. Good news, all of my gear still fit & passed inspections and all of my tanks passed the hydro tests. Bad news, my computers needed new batteries & a mask fell apart when I tried to clean it. Batteries & 1 piece of faulty gear after 10+ years in storage, I can handle that. :thumb:

Cave diving is demanding enough! I certified years ago in Florida. Lots of training and even more equipment is required. As one of my instructors used to say, buy the best equipment you can find because you don't want your tombstone to read "Here lies (insert your name here). Too cheap to buy the best". It was an experience that I don't regret but probably would not bother with again if I could roll back the hands of time. By nature, cavers are explorers. Pushing the limits is the excitement of the discipline. Sadly, far too many find that limit.

Got hold of some purple potatoes at work. They are about the size of reds.
Never seen or tried them before so I grabbed a few. Made tater pancakes & am currently making something else (roasted garlic something something).
They taste & cook like regular taters but there is virtually no shelf life to these things. Straight from farm & a few were starting to go bad within 24hrs.
Someone said they were hybrids & another person said the taters were originally imported from South America but yes, they are actually supposed to be purple; I don't really care, I just wanted to try them. Apparently there are other colored ones out there too so I'm curious about also trying those out.